Analyzing Students' Problems in Writing Narrative Text through SFL Perspectives

Rozi Setiawan

2017

Abstract

Among four basic skills of English, writing is considered as one of the most challenging skills since it demands writer’s complex ability from word to text level. In Indonesian classrooms, classical problems regarding writing English text such as the lack of vocabulary and grammar mastery and inability to develop the main idea still appear. Based on previous research, these problems are caused by monotonous teaching strategy, the absence of instructional media, and teachers’ lack of creativity. Thus, this study aimed to identify the recurring problems found in a student narrative text of grade eleven in Central Java and proposing ideal pedagogical plan to solve the problems. This study employed qualitative research and the data were analysed by using three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspectives in order to identify whether the sample has met the ideal criteria of narrative text. The results show that the recurring problems found were the misuse of past participle, the word choice, the use of modality, the absence of relational process, and the employment of proper conjunctions. Moreover, these problems might be solved by employing a set of pedagogical plans which adopts the principle of discovery learning combined with cooperative learning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Setiawan R. (2017). Analyzing Students' Problems in Writing Narrative Text through SFL Perspectives.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 325-330. DOI: 10.5220/0007166803250330

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Rozi Setiawan},
title={Analyzing Students' Problems in Writing Narrative Text through SFL Perspectives},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={325-330},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166803250330},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Analyzing Students' Problems in Writing Narrative Text through SFL Perspectives
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Setiawan R.
PY - 2017
SP - 325
EP - 330
DO - 10.5220/0007166803250330